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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
AMHERST
FACTS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
The University of Massachusetts is a state-aupported-coeducattonal institution founded
April 29, 1863 under provisions of the Land-Grant Act of 1862.
Incorporated as Massachusetts Agricultural College, it became Massachusetts State
College in March, 1931 and the University of Massachusetts in May, 1947.
The University's central campus covers more than 900 acres of land In Amherst. Experiment
stations are located in Waltham and East Wareham, and other facilities are
situated in South Deerfield, Belchertown and Nantucket.
At the present time the University has a total enrollment of 10,497 students--8167
undergraduates, 484 in the two-year Stockbridge School, and 1846 graduate students.
This year's freshman class numberes 2592.
For every six undergraduate students enrolled, almost four come from the eastern--east
of mid-Worcester--part of the state, and two from the western sector. Population and
student enrollment projections indicate that the University in Amherst will have approximately
25,000 students by 1975.
The University offers 64 undergraduate majors in its two colleges and six schools.
(The College of Arts and Sciences, College of Agriculture, Schools of Business Administration,
Education, Engineering, Home Economics, Nursing, and Physical Education.
The University also has a Department of Public Health and a Division of Military and
Air Science.)
Enrollment in the Graduate School has more than quadrupled in the past decade. Programs
are offered in 45 fields for the master's degree and in 23 fields for the
doctorate.
The Four-College Cooperation Program, conducted by Smith, Mount Holyoke and Amherst
Colleges with the University, extends privileges to students from any of the four institutions
for courses not available at the student's own school.
The University ia the founding place and home of ''The Massachusetts Review" quarterly
professional magazine of the arts, literature and public affairs. The four area
colleges support the magazine.
Of the University's more than 20,000 alumni, many of whom are active in Universityrelated
programs, perhaps the two best-known are Murray Lincoln, Founder of CARE,
Inc., and Louis Lyona, former curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University,
and currently a widely renowned TV news analyst for WGDH-TV, Boston.
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Thirty new buildings at a cost of $43 million have been completed during the past
seven years or are now under construction. Construction has begun on the first phase
of a southwest residence-dining hall complex that will, when completed, house and feed
5,600 students. Fifteen dormitories and three dining commons will make up the complex.
Dormitories and dining commons are constructed by the University of Massachusetts
Building Authority at no cost to the taxpayer. Under the Authority, bonds are issued,
and the buildings are paid for on a self-liquidating basis.
Now under construction are an addition to the engineering building, an addition to the
food science and technology building, a fourth section to the Justin Morrlll Science
Center, and a football stadium. In the design stage are a fine arts center, an
administration building, an addition to the liberal arts building, graduate research
facilities, and an addition to Machmer classroom building.
0r. John W. Lederle, the University's fifteenth president, was born in Royal Oak,
Mich., In 1912. He received his A.B., A.M., LL.B. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Michigan.
Before coming to the University in 1950, Dr. Lederle practiced law In Michigan and
subsequently taught at Brown University and at the University of Michigan. He direct'
ed the Institution of Public Administration at the latter Institution before coming
to the University of Massachusetts.
He organized and was tha first director of the Institute of Public Administration at
the University of the Philippines, was Controller of the State of Michigan, and has
held many other state and federal consultant positions.
In keeping with the Land-Grant tradition of service to the state, the University
maintains major bureaus, institutes and centers--The Bureau of Government Research,
the Massachusetts Population Research Institute, the Polymer Research Institute, the
Institute of Environmental Psychophy si jlog^ the Research Computing Center, and the
Speech and Hearing Center.
University conducts a comprehensive honors program, extending from the freshman
through the senior year, for gifted undergraduates, and this year has inaugurated
en oxperimental Residential College in four new high rise dormitories on Orchard Hill,
designed to bring students and faculty into closer relationship in a total educativecultural
environment,
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